Category: Portrait

By Robert Pilgrim

It’s been a long day,” Max Keeping confides as he sits down in his office at CJOH-TV. “I was out selling newspapers at six o’clock this morning for the Ottawa Citizen’s literacy campaign.”

But that was only the beginning. The rest of his day is chocked-full of speeches, guest appearances and fundraising events. read more

By Robert Pilgrim

On a late September Sunday afternoon, Vincent Massey Park is teeming with activity. Squirrels rustle in the bushes, the birds twitter in the trees . . . and a group of ferrets wiggle their way out of socks!

The ‘sock stuffing’ spectacle is one of many attractions at the Ferret Rescue Society of Ottawa’s semi-annual Ferret Frolic, an event that gives ferrets of the city a chance to enjoy the outdoors in the company of their furried fellows. read more

Grey-haired Kunlun Zhang watches from the front row of the courtroom, arms crossed, just a shadow’s length away from a stuffed nylon dummy, clad in a grey suit, sitting at a table for the defence . . .

Each day as André Parent arrives to work at the Good Day Workshop, he first makes his way past a bulletin board in the lunch room covered with dozens of names carved from wood. In the midst of these names is a lined piece of paper.